Frank Street - Revision history

Ric: more on confusing amateur/pro

2013-07-06T20:02:55Z

more on confusing amateur/pro

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	By early 1912 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the brand-new Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1911-02-18/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/]		By early 1912 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the brand-new Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1911-02-18/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/]

	In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds and a [[decision]] was to be rendered, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-09/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-06-24/ed-1/seq-2/]. Sometimes it would questioned whether a boxer was truly an amateur or a professional, and Street himself was not immune to such criticism. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1912-03-26/ed-1/seq-2/]		In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds and a [[decision]] was to be rendered, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1913-12-11/ed-1/seq-7/] Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-09/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-06-24/ed-1/seq-2/]. Sometimes it would questioned whether a boxer was truly an amateur or a professional, and Street himself was not immune to such criticism. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1912-03-26/ed-1/seq-2/]

	By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was supposedly shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694] Yet, out-of-state boxers were "flocking" to Spokane in 1913. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cE00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3539%2C902723]		By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was supposedly shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694] Yet, out-of-state boxers were "flocking" to Spokane in 1913. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cE00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3539%2C902723]

Ric: Cy Paup=manager

2013-07-06T19:09:03Z

Cy Paup=manager

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	'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115])		'''Manager:''' [[Cy Paup]] [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1911-11-09/ed-1/seq-2/]

			'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was living in the Tacoma area.

			By early 1912 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the brand-new Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1911-02-18/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/]

			In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds and a [[decision]] was to be rendered, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-09/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-06-24/ed-1/seq-2/]. Sometimes it would questioned whether a boxer was truly an amateur or a professional, and Street himself was not immune to such criticism. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1912-03-26/ed-1/seq-2/]

	By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was supposedly shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694] Yet, out-of-state boxers were "flocking" to Spokane in 1913. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cE00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3539%2C902723]		By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was supposedly shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694] Yet, out-of-state boxers were "flocking" to Spokane in 1913. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cE00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3539%2C902723]

Ric at 17:59, 6 July 2013

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	'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115])		'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115])

	By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694]		By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was supposedly shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694] Yet, out-of-state boxers were "flocking" to Spokane in 1913. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cE00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3539%2C902723]

	By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914. (He engaged in an exhibition bout in a Spokane Armory benefit smoker Sept. 5, 1917. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7sRXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MPQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6576%2C6599462]))		By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914. (He engaged in an exhibition bout in a Spokane Armory benefit smoker Sept. 5, 1917. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7sRXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MPQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6576%2C6599462]))

Ric at 17:44, 6 July 2013

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	'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy.)		'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of, and a boxing instructor at, the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy. Sometimes a six-round bout could be merely an exhibition. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=205UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zToNAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3406%2C102115])

	By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914.		By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] And engaging in 145-lb. amateur bouts there. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3apVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ueADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3614%2C6768478] (Professional boxing was shut down tight in Spokane at the time.) And pro bouts outside of Spokane. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=geAUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=4136%2C1402694]

			By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914. (He engaged in an exhibition bout in a Spokane Armory benefit smoker Sept. 5, 1917. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7sRXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MPQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6576%2C6599462]))

	Street was the former Pacific Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.		Street was the former Pacific Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.

			He is to be distinguished from the Portland, Oregon boxer Frank Street (circa 1918). [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ls0sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MiAEAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=3589%2C4536128]

Ric at 17:11, 6 July 2013

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	'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy.)		'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy.)

	By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914.		By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rqhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reADAAAAIBAJ&dq=frank-street%20boxer&pg=5536%2C5769564] By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914.

	Street was the former Pacific Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.		Street was the former Pacific Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.

Ric at 17:09, 6 July 2013

2013-07-06T17:09:46Z

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			'''Frank Street''' got his start as an amateur boxer in Spokane, Washington, under the tutelage of [[Johnny Judge]]. By 1910 he was a member of the Tacoma Athletic Club. [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/][http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1912-04-12/ed-1/seq-2/] (In those days, if such a bout was scheduled for at least four rounds, it was usually included in a boxer's official record--due to prize-fighting being [[:USA: Washington State Laws\|illegal]] in the state until 1933. Whether a bout was truly amateur or crossed into being a professional bout was sometimes fuzzy.)

	* Former Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.		By 1913, he was back in the Spokane area. By September 1914, he was a Spokane bartender. ''Tacoma Daily News'', Sept. 12, 1914.
	* According to a July 1922 SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW newspaper edition, he ~~got his start~~ in the Spokane~~, Washington~~ area ~~under the tutelage of Johnny Judge~~.
	* By ~~Sept.~~ 1914 he was a Spokane bartender. ~~TACOMA DAILY NEWS~~, Sept. 12, 1914.		Street was the former Pacific Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.

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* Former Northwest Welterweight & Middleweight Champion.
* According to a July 1922 SPOKANE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW newspaper edition, he got his start in the Spokane, Washington area under the tutelage of Johnny Judge.
* By Sept. 1914 he was a Spokane bartender. TACOMA DAILY NEWS, Sept. 12, 1914.